🗓️ This Friday, November 29th, will be a night to remember!

The Twotone team is very excited to be celebrating a decade of doing business and stoked to welcome everyone to Twotone HQ!

I'll save the real sappy stuff for the speech, but Twotone would not have made it this far without all of our friends, clients, contacts, and collaborators in the bike industry. It is true it does take a village, and we're very thankful for our village! (If you're reading this, that means you too!) So, we're celebrating!

🎉 Here’s the evening agenda:

✍️ 18:00: until late: we'll have our traditional permanent party favor options from @frankvandersman, @zoi8ink & others TBD. Flash reveal this week!
🍔🍻🍷From 19:00: tasty @bbqbikenl veggie burgers & fries, refreshing @walhallabrewing beer & natural @nativewines.eu!
🎤19:30: @mirawoodroof – a special Amsterdam performance from this up & coming indie solo act visiting from 🇺🇸!
🎸20:00: @feral.band – hard-hitting eclectic drum machine-driven dance punk from Amsterdam!
⁠⁠🎹21:00: @wldrf – Devo meets Kraftwerk on a bakfiets from Rotterdam!
🎷22:00: @amagukmusic – Local Mediterranean jazz punk purveyors return to @workspacesix with a new album: El Ferretero!
🔊 23:00 until late: DJ King Koen of @soulcyclebmx & DJ Tony Danzer aka @antoinevmoon

👕 We’ll have #twotoneturnsten T’s & jackets printed by @katoenfabriek, caps made by @veracycling, PMA sticker packs & patches by @patchdesign.nl for sale at the party.

🤘Jay from @cyclepunks will be there as well with @cyclepunk merch!

🎪 The @cyclezirkus fam is coming to town as well with a day after Hangover Ride from our office at noon on 30 Nov & @amscrosscomp cheer corner with @ciovita on 1 Dec at Sloten.

🥳 Tag a homie, colleague, or cousin & join us Friday at Tussen de Bogen!

as always, thank you for reading and for a decade of proving that where there is a wheel, there is a way!

Jon

Upcoming Events

November

🇳🇱 24 A'dam CX Big Spotter's Hill
🇳🇱 29 The Twotone Ten Year Party!

December

🇳🇱 1 A'dam CX Sloten
🇳🇱 8 A'dam CX De Bukt

December

🇳🇱 10-15 6 Days Rotterdam
🇳🇱 15 A'dam CX ARC Ulysses
🇳🇱 22 A'dam CX ZWC DTS
🇳🇱 29 A'dam CX Uithoorn

January

🇳🇱 17-19 Velofollies

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Bikes

Old Man Mountain launches and announces recruiting for its new Experimental Bikepacking Team

Read more about & maybe even apply for the team here. In other OMM news, they're also expanding into France!

Strava’s Big Changes Aim To Kill Off Apps

At first I had bookmarked "Winning Through Negotiation with Strava co-founder Mark Gainey" but then this news about Strava blocking 3rd party apps stole the spotlight. Does anyone know the real reason why?

Bikepacking Iceland: A Winter Journey Through the Heart of the Highlands

Next time you're feeling chilly, watch this & try to imagine how cold he must have been! Very impressive & beautiful project! Watch here.

Ideas

The Twotone Gift Guide 2024

We just added a few items and if you have an idea of something we should include, holler at your dude! : )

Mechanics of Joy Nº40: COMMUNITY MADE FOR A DECADE

Earlier this month Kike & I did an episode about the roots of Twotone as a company. An hour show with music selections precludes us from a big deep-dive way down memory lane of doing business in the bike industry over the past 10 years, but there are still is the story of how the company got its start! Listen here.

The Road Safety Fallacy

I hadn't heard of the Airplane Fallacy before. Interesting read!

Friends

Dan Craven of Onguza interviewed on Broomwagon

No surprise that I'm stoked to listen to Dan & Stefano speak! Listen to this episode here.

Jordan Hufnagel's New Website

I have a track bike built by Jordan Hufnagel from 2009. Its been awesome to watch his work from afar ever since! In his words: "Proud to announce my new site focused on the sculptural and functional work I take so much pleasure in creating. These initial offerings focus on the flirtatious relationship between light and shadow, and the texture between. Working the metal by hand using traditional techniques allows for the imperfect perfection and humanity to live in each piece."

Ken is looking for work

Ken is a cornerstone of the courier & 'zine community here in in Amsterdam. Hit him up on insta or kebygomez [at] gmail dot com

Radness

SKLOSS - The Pattern Speaks (Official Video)

Rad tune & rad video! Stream / buy here. Two Sandy Carson links in two weeks! This man is busy! Plus, the DIG BMX Fragments series I mentioned last week kicked off with its first episode about Taj Mihelich here.

Thank you very much for reading!

And here's to another decade of being community-made & seeing you Friday!

٩(^ᗜ^ )و Nº318 Community Made For A Decade 🌐 🌱